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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Alto Boquete in Panama


Earthquake location 8.6939S, -82.4076WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Alto Boquete in Panama. The temblor was detected at 15:06:05 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -82.4076° West, 8.6939° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/21 / 2021-01-18 15:06:05 / January 18, 2021 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000d17h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d17h.

Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Changuinola, Golfito, Bocas del Toro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Changuinola (c. 22 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bocas del Toro (c. 13 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSE of Alto Boquete, Panama. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.4076° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSE of Alto Boquete, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-18 15:06:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-18 21:57:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 189 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000d17h Id of event.
Event Code 7000d17h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d17h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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